Registration has been posted for some upcoming events in August / Sept. In place of Ludum Dare this August, we will be doing our own jam called Library Jam. The idea is you pick a book and have to design a game based on that. If you want, you can also draw a book at the event for the extra challenge.

The other exciting event is the The Winnipeg Game Jam Demo Night. This is the first time we've done a public exhibition of local developers games and it should be a great time. If you are a developer I encourage you to come set up a demo and invite all your friends to come check out what you've been working on. Demoing to the public is one of the best things you can do to gather feedback and get you excited to work on projects again. Please RSVP shortly so we can send out marketing materials in time.

As we move forward from the 2016 Winnipeg game jam, join us on Tuesday, July 19th 7:00pm at Red River College downtown as we celebrate our community and creativity. Hear from first time game devs, all the way to veteran game jammers as they share their games, experiences and everything in between including audio, programming, art, hardware and much more!

Join us this coming Tuesday 7:30pm at the Yellow Dog Tavern for the Winnipeg Game Collective Meetup as we discuss post Peg Jam 2016 and play some of the games on the Winnitron itself!

Now that all the dust has settled from last weekend's 2016 Winnipeg Game Jam, we would like to take the opportunity to recap the weekend by the numbers. Over the course of the weekend we saw 55+ people make over 20 games, also roughly 6 of those games were made for the Winnitron, with 1 VR game being made for the HTC Vive. Over a quarter of attendees were first time jammers with over 5 of those also being first time game devs!

A special thanks goes out to our event partner New Media Manitoba, Dylan Fries from Electric Monk Media for organizing the jam and facilitating an amazing community and ACI Manitoba for access to an amazing space to be creative. Thanks to special guest speaker Calvin French of Kitty Lambda Games from Calgary, as well to Graeme Borland from Owlchemy Labs, freelance artist Amy Gerardy, Mike Berg of WeHeartGames, and BrettLowey of BrainGood Games. Also we would like to thank Albertine Watson, and Daniel Voth for generously volunteering their time and energy. And of course all of YOU for coming out to be apart of such an amazing, supportive, and creative community.

For a list of attendees and all their games feel free to check out Previous Game Jams here on PegJam.com!

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Peg Jam, Winnipeg Game Jam and Winnipeg Game Collective are coordinated by Dylan Fries and Daniel Voth.